Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1278: Gotta Write Something

Gotta write something and it doesn’t matter what. Been slacking, but haven’t; just had a lot on, but let that get in the way of getting things done. Funny how that happens.

So I sit here and I write away and this place still doesn’t feel like home and it probably won’t for a while but that’s the way it goes sometimes. Sometimes that’s what you have to deal with as you get used to something new. Do I want to get used to this? Perhaps, but also not really. I don’t know when I will move again, but I know that at least for the time being I am here and in being here I get to have a sense of security, despite how faint that may be.

So I sit here and I write away and I’m not writing anything that’s particularly interesting and that’s okay, but I do need to write something and so that something is this and it comes from the hands as they fly away over the keyboard. They peck at the keys and they do their thing and I wonder as to how much longer I can keep this up. I haven’t written much and already I am struggling, but sometimes you need to struggle.

You shouldn’t have to suffer and you shouldn’t have to struggle, but sometimes you do and you get through it and you get on with things. Maybe you need help but you get there and you keep on going because no matter how hard it gets, it can always get worse but it can also get better and so you do what you can. If you get help then you pass it on when you can and you keep going and hopefully in the end people are better supported. It takes a while and it can be a massive slog, but you get there and then everyone gets there.

Comparatively struggling to write a few words about very little is not a struggle. It’s very easy, but at the moment I am struggling to write. I am struggling to get to the end of things but I persist. I am in a position to do so and despite the meaninglessness of it all there are goals I am looking to achieve and there is an ending I am looking to reach. Cutting things right here and right now is not what I want to do, though it does call out in a manner that makes me want to, but I won’t. It’s not the time I am looking for and it’s not the right time either. Besides which, I’d be gone for a week at most and then be back to hammering away at the keyboard crapping on about things people either don’t care about or things that people don’t care about, and that’s… yeah.

So I think I’m just forcing myself through this and I’m getting there, but it’s taking time, but that’s okay; it’s not bad.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:09:40

Bit of a struggle and a bit crap, but in some ways necessary. Far more unnecessary than necessary, but you know.

Written at home.

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A Rock With a View

Somewhat recently a car park was built near Lincoln’s Rock, which is a good and a bad thing. When it comes to trying to attract tourism to a spot like this you run the risk of cutting into the peace and stillness of a space already seeing some human activity, albeit nowhere near to the same extent. At the same time of the people visiting, a few more now would get a better appreciation of the landscape and the idea of nature.

That said, it is likely that when people had to put in (admittedly very little) work to get to this spot they were more likely to appreciate the space more as it lacked the convenience the car park offers.

I hope you enjoy.

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Shadowed Face

This is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago of a friend of mine as they were turning around. Decided to do process it, created a moody and perhaps intense result.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week. Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Early Morning Valley Clouds

I imagine if in that valley it would be more fog than clouds.
Perspective and all that.

I hope you enjoy.

 

 

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Moderat: 3 Minutes Of

One listen for this one.
I tried to write more about imagery than anything else and I kind of pulled it off, kind of didn’t. Sort of in the middle.

Moderat’s “3 Minutes Of” is from Moderat.

I hope you enjoy.

An ambient wave fades into a bright view, slowly rolling with a smoothness that little else can replicate. It rolls and shimmers through an endless nothingness, and in that perhaps is a dreamy loneliness. The loneliness itself is less like a wave and more constant and eternal, and on slowed sounds it presses in and expands, and it is there.

Something more distorted starts coming in and suddenly snaps everything away. A beat creates structure and keeps things feeling more hard and perhaps glitchy, and the melody remains and stretches out, but is no longer as prominent a focus. Still, it does seem to come forward in some manner and that distortion starts creeping back in, or maybe it isn’t and it’s just hovering at the edges.

The melody pulls back, leaving the beat alone in this transformed world and then it suddenly stops and the song ends.

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Henry Head Lighthouse at Sunset

It’s this lighthouse, but at sunset and from a different position of viewing.
When I recently headed out to Cape Banks I wanted to get a photo similar to this one.
I’m pretty sure that the reason I got the lighthouse at this angle and distance was due to getting to it a bit later than I had anticipated. I think it may have been quite windy as well; I’m not entirely sure.

With the area and subject mostly being silhouette and the low variance of colour I feel this is a minimal photo, or at least a simple one.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-fifty-seventh Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Simplicity“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Donna

Week 9 – Guest host

Philo of Philosophy Through Photography is guest-curating this one. The rest of July is also guest-curated and the themes have been announced in advance:

July 15: Dawn Miller of The Day After with “Fences”.
July 22: Dan Fenner of Departing in 5 Minutes with “Unbound Summer”.
July 29: Janet Webb of This That and The Other Thing with “Overlooked”.

I recommend participating in the challenges as they provide a fun way to interpret theme. If not participating, then at least you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sunset Signs

This is a photo I want to retake. Whilst I like how this turned out, it feels more like a reference photo to me than it does the final result.

I think there’s a sense of isolation here, or maybe it’s abandonment. Maybe emptiness. In part it has to do with the space, but I also think it has to do with the vegetation. It’s not overgrown, but a lot of it seems like its returning to the area rather than established in a semi-controlled way.

I hope you enjoy.

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A Poem About Being Partially Cold

So I have ideas that I need to scribble down.
Right now that’s not going to happen, but I did pull this out quite quickly.
Not good. Probably needs better prose, or just to be thrown out altogether.
Just kind of a “getting back into the swing of things” thing.

I hope you enjoy.

Cold and warm in equal measure
Neither sure how nor why
All suggests warm all over
Yet one limb denies this possibility

Changes are made
To disrupt the balance
Despite my attempts
The limb remains cold

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Winter Lungs

Not sure what tree this tree is, but I know that it reminds me of lungs for some reason.
Anyway, not the best of photos. Bit of space, bit of isolation, fairly standard. I still like it, however.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1277: Forward Direction

And so it goes into another evening and in that evening things turn around and spin and it all blurs and smears in a way that expresses that which is not but only can be, but only when it no longer has.

Twists and turns contort themselves into elliptical shapes and all that can be will now once more be no longer, but how that reaches this and this reaches that is something that cannot be uncovered within a few mere words. However, what must be will be and what must not might just anyway. If there was ever a time for that, then that time is apparent.

Perhaps it is only verily so but not always, but when you angle the light just right it shows you exactly how, but only how and neither when nor where, and some might consider that to be a bit of an issue for a number of reasons. What those reasons are number from the first to the last and between those is a defined range of reasons ordered in a way that shows that they are reasons, though of course not all reasons hold weight but you can’;t always ask them to do so as there can be a lot to carry and there is only so much reasoning at any given time at any given moment. However, what is contained within those moments could reveal all in a way that says nothing, but you  get it along the way and as you get it you catch it and as you catch it you might just thrash it and that’s not something that you want to do as thrashing could lead to changing the reasons and then you’ve not what you wanted.

Perhaps what you wanted is not what you wanted and it is something you weren’t even aware of. However, this is not pertinent to the task at hand and as the shadows crawl across unexplored valleys, and the pristine changes to the defiled we must find another way to look and say “Yes, there is a forward direction”, and we say this with conviction when we say this as it is something that must be said knowing that there is a confidence behind what is said, and that there also is a certainty. It is that certainty that carries through the generations that lie ahead, but we need them to get up as lying on the ground is uncomfortable for a lot of people and we want them to be comfortable as all collapses in on itself as knowing knows not knowing is something not to know.

I do fear that we have hit an impasse, but there are ways around that snake themselves into a knot of ties and so the way around goes around itself, leading to much of not much and yet everything. It’s all there and it is contained within itself, and it seems to be content, but perhaps that is the length of its extent.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:20:57

Ran out of steam a bit early into this but I kept going. Not sure if that was the best idea. Maybe it was.

Written at home.

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